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Introduction to Linux - A Hands on Guide

This guide was created as an overview of the Linux Operating System, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter.
For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. This book contains many real life examples derived from the author's experience as a Linux system and network administrator, trainer and consultant. They hope these examples will help you to get a better understanding of the Linux system and that you feel encouraged to try out things on your own.

I still can't set the JAVA_HOME. When I 'ls' the /etc in the terminal as root, the 'profile' is not a directory. There's a 'profile.d' directory though. Are they the same? I tried in bash and tcsh shell, both can't work.
Instead of unpacking in /usr/local (I did that too, I tried /etc/rc.d/init.d also.

i test the path i set just now, and which java and which javac, all is ok. But when I close the terminal and open a new one, it's gone! The set path command was suppose to be set in /etc/profile, but as there's no such directory, I set it in /etc/rc.d/init.d
There's no '~/.bashrc' or bash_profile thing anywhere. I did all of that in terminal. If I access through the desktop, I can find the profile and bashrc but they are normal files not directories.
Please please help me!!!